North Korea develops its nuclear programme "at an alarming rate"

As the USA and North Korea traded jabs, many observers began to fear that the two countries might find themselves in a war that Secretary of Defense James Mattis previously said would be "catastrophic" and "tragic on an unbelievable scale".

Senior U.S. national security officials said Sunday that a military confrontation with North Korea's is not imminent, but they cautioned that the possibility of war is greater than it was a decade ago.

"Nothing is imminent. But be careful, the increased likelihood of a nuclear missile strikes the United States is a very unsafe threat", added the director of the u.s. central intelligence agency.

They said the United States and its allies no longer can afford to stand by as North Korea pushes ahead with the development of a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile.

"There's nothing imminent today", Mr. Pompeo said.

"Each time they test another missile, or if they should conduct a nuclear weapons text, they develop expertise, they expend the envelope".

Trump last week said North Korea would be met with "fire and fury" if leader Kim Jung Un followed through on a threat to execute a missile strike on nearby Guam, a US territory with an American military base. Donald Trump in particular has promised "fire and anger" at North Korea. In response, North Korea announced a detailed plan to fire ballistic missiles towards Guam, a USA territory in the Pacific. "But make no mistake about it. the increased chance that there will be a nuclear missile in Denver is a very serious threat". "We've engaged the world to support that policy", Pompeo told host Chris Wallace.

US National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster echoed the tenor of Pompeo's remarks, saying the threat posed by North Korea is "coming to a head", but adding in an interview on ABC, "we're not closer to war than a week ago".

"He responds to adverse circumstances", he said.

Guam, some 4,300 miles from the U.S. mainland, is a target because it is home to U.S. Navy and Air Force bases, from which two B-1B supersonic bombers were deployed close to the Korean peninsula on Tuesday.

"Our response is we are prepared militarily to deal with this if necessary".

Trump wrote on Twitter on Friday that U.S.

He also clarified the president's warnings, noting that the US does not want war with North Korea but will take action to defend itself if attacked.

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